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Governor Kate Brown Leads Multi-State Effort to Protect Health Care Coverage for Pre-Existing Conditions   (Salem, OR) — Governor Kate Brown is leading eight other states in a call to the federal government to stop undermining the health care that Americans across the country rely on. Joined by Governors Inslee (Washington), Bullock (Montana), Cooper (North Carolina), Dayton (Minnesota), Hickenlooper (Colorado), Malloy (Connecticut), Northam (Virginia), and Wolf (Pennsylvania), Brown contacted Attorney […]

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have confirmed that last fall’s union of two neutron stars did in fact cause a short gamma-ray burst. The findings, published today in Physical Review Letters, represent a key step forward in astrophysicists’ understanding of the relationship between binary neutron star mergers, gravitational waves and short gamma-ray bursts. Commonly abbreviated as GRBs, gamma-ray bursts are narrow beams of electromagnetic waves of the […]

Governor Kate Brown to Speak at Oregon Tech Commencement, Sign Oregon National Guard Tuition Bill in Klamath Falls   (Salem, OR) — Governor Kate Brown will visit Klamath Falls this weekend, where she will deliver the keynote address at Oregon Institute of Technology’s commencement ceremony. Following that event, she will visit Kingsley Air Force Base to sign HB 4035, which provides tuition assistance for Oregon National Guard members. Oregon Tech, as it […]

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new analysis of multilingual students’ academic progress shows that the group’s achievement in reading and math grew substantially between 2003 and 2015, challenging the perception that these students have demonstrated few academic gains in recent years. Multilingual students’ test scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress improved two to three times more than monolingual students’ scores in both reading and math in grades 4 and […]

The Toledo Public Library is proud to announce that is has received a grant from the Pilcrow Foundation’s Children’s Book Project. To qualify for the grant, libraries must be located in a rural area within the 50 United States, have a limited operating budget, have an active children’s department, and raise $200-$400 through a local sponsor. Located more than 25 miles from an urban area (population over 50,000) and serving […]